{"id":2252,"date":"2016-06-04T05:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2016-06-10T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:50:02","slug":"withdraw-unfair-vat-that-burdens-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/withdraw-unfair-vat-that-burdens-people\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Withdraw unfair VAT that burdens people!’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The JVP organized a protest in Colombo yesterday (3rd) stating the present Maithri – Ranil administration burdens the people with more and more taxes, \u00a0while wasting money for \u00a0their luxuries is locking the country in a debt trap and is dragging the country towards a precipice.<\/p>\n

Protesters marched from Technical Junction at Maradana to opposite Fort Railway Station where they held a massive agitation.<\/p>\n

The Leader of the JVP Comrade Anura Dissanayaka, the General Secretary Comrade Tilvin Silva, Members of the Political Bureau Comrades K.D. Lal Kantha, Vijitha Herath, Sunil Handunneththi, Bimal Rathnayaka and a large crowd participated.<\/p>\n

The protestors shouted and displayed following slogan:<\/p>\n

Withdraw unfair VAT that burdens people!<\/p>\n

Stop wasteful spending of the government!<\/p>\n

Government that promised cars increased poor man’s three-wheeler price!<\/p>\n

Government gets 50% from a Rs.100 reload!<\/p>\n

Is tormenting helpless patients with VAT good governance?<\/p>\n

Reveal IMF loan conditions that drives country into debt!<\/p>\n

Defeat marauding economy that burdens country with debt & taxes!<\/p>\n

Stop selling state resources immediately!<\/p>\n

Is Rs.600 million spent for Ranil’s cars earned by taxing the poor?<\/p>\n

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The JVP organized a protest in Colombo yesterday (3rd) stating the present Maithri – Ranil administration burdens the people with more and more taxes, \u00a0while wasting money for \u00a0their luxuries is locking the country in a debt trap and is dragging the country towards a precipice. Protesters marched from Technical Junction at Maradana to opposite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry","9":"gs-1","10":"gs-odd","11":"gs-even","12":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jvpsrilanka.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}